Text Structures
Figurative Language
Parts of the Story
Things to do
Terms
100

This text structure puts events in order

Sequence

100

A saying that doesn't mean what it says

Idiom

100

Animals, people, or creatures in a story

Characters 

100

Retelling the story in your own words with the highlights

Summary/Summarizing

100

The "paragraphs of poetry"

Stanzas

200

This text structure takes two or more things and defines how they are alike or different

Compare and Contrast 

200

Compares two things using "like" or "as"

Simile


200

Where a story takes place

Setting

200

Reading between the lines

Infer/Inferencing

200

A word part that comes at the end of a word

Suffix 

300

This text structure defines when something happens because another thing happened.

Cause and Effect

300

Compares two things but doesn't use "like" or "as"

Metaphor

300

The challenge or problem a character faces in a story

Conflict

300

What the author is trying to convince you of

Author's Claim

300

Something important that an author wants readers to know about a topic, often the reason why the passage was written

Central Idea or Main Idea 


400

This text structure gives an in depth portrayal of something

Description

400
Gives human characteristics to non-human things

Personification

400

The message or lesson the author wants to share

Theme

400

Important details to the story

Relevant Details


400

A regular pattern of sound in a poem, it sounds like a song

Rhythm 

500

This text structure describes an issue and how it is resolved.

Problem and Solution

500

An exaggeration

Hyperbole

500

A series of events that happen in a story

Plot

500

When someone writes about something they didn't witness first hand

Secondary Source


500

A repetition of a sound. "Sally sells seashells down by the seashore."

Alliteration